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This is all very helpful, but how do you spot English?
by to3m 10y ago
This is all very helpful, but how do you spot English?
- oneeyedpigeon 10y agoPardon?
- daniyel 10y agoIf the text contains only plain, boring letters and you see the word "the" being used a few times... you're looking at a text in English.
- timthorn 10y agoThough æ is used in English, too.
- Someone 10y ago"our", "re", and "ise" (unless it's English from Oxford)
- aylons 10y agoNo diacritics, and generous use of apostrophes.
- yohoho22 10y ago> No diacritics An understandably naïve view of things whose errancy could easily be corrected through your coöperative perusal of The New Yorker.
- eru 10y agoWouldn't it be cöoperative?
- tremon 10y agoIt wouldn't be. The goal is to separate the second o from the first, not to separate the o from the c: The diaeresis indicates that a vowel should be pronounced apart from the letter that precedes it [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_%28diacritic%29#Diaeresis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_%28diacritic%29#Diae...
- eru 10y agoOh, true. Naive should have tipped me off.
- vacri 10y agoTo be fair, the original question was how to recognise English text, not how to recognise the archaic microcosm of English text that resides between the covers of The New Yorker.
- dalke 10y agoThat guideline would likely classify Xhosa as English. See https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphepha_Elingundoqo https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphepha_Elingundoqo , which has no diacritics and three apostrophes.
- barking 10y agoIn my case it'll be the only one that I can understand, innit?
- executesorder66 10y agoTo all sibling comments, I'm sure he meant how does someone who does not speak English, identify it by the letters?
- executesorder66 10y agoAnd now that I think about it, how would you differentiate Latin and English?
- restalis 10y agoThe use of "w" puts it in the germanic group, then the additional usage of "qu" puts the romance sign on it. Usually, that is enough for me.